  The
Grain Academy Museum, located in the BMO Centre on the Plus 15
level in Stampede Park is a brief walk from downtown Calgary,
Alberta, Canada, or a fast ride on the city's LRT system with a
stop at the Stampede Park station.
The Grain Academy Museum is open Monday to Friday from 10:00
am to 4:00 pm. Special bookings for group tours for after
hours and weekends can be made by telephone (403-263-4594) or
via email.
Parking is also available on the Stampede grounds for a fee,
and Bus Tour groups have free parking with advance notice to the
Grain Academy.
The Grain Academy Museum offers tours to anyone who has an
interest in gaining a bird's eye view of the grain handling
system, storage and transportation industries.
Besides giving people the facts about how much and what kind
of grains are grown in Canada, visitors learn that some 90
nations buy grain from Canada, and they get to see an array of
products derived from grain.
 Guests
can watch a video on "The Way it Was" depicting how
the prairies were settled, see a working grain elevator
demonstration and watch a sizeable model train display on the
movement of grain from the prairie to the terminals at
Vancouver.
Other displays include everything from barbed wire types to
wheat straw weaving, pioneer farm tools and various models of
farm implements.
The Grain Academy operates solely on donations from
interested parties, sponsors and visitors, and has been open
since 1981.
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